#21: ode to mli
I feel the listlessness that follows a sustained adrenalin high. MLI 2006 (aka "policy boot-camp") just concluded. It was an 8-week-long unrelenting pressure-cooker experience. We were perpetually chasing deadlines for everything – memos, lectures, assignments, debates, site visits, and climbing walls/poles. And we were all in it together – fellows, faculty, and staff. Finally it is time to catch a breath, time to wake up to our biological clocks and not the jarring alarm clocks, time to have proper meals, and time to read and see things we want to and not because we have to.
But as we go through the R&R, it is hard not to be afflicted by withdrawal symptoms. The "family" that was MLI has gone its own separate ways. The corridors are eerily silent, the computer labs are ghost towns, and there's no one napping in the lounge!! The quirks, the banter, the goofiness, and the occasional pain-in-the royal-arse (just kidding) .... are now memories. All good things come to an end.
As for me, each year I learn something new. If IM was my big step two years ago, this year I have an account on facebook, I am blogging, and my digital camera is being shipped. Go slow, my man – I keep telling myself. I shouldn't get ahead of myself!
At the closing ceremony I gave my first speech. It was a heady, even if slightly nervous, experience. I'd say I was Clintonesque (ahem) – no, not in content or style, but in a few mannerisms. I could have been a lot more eloquent, but this'll do for my first effort. This is a special group, and I really felt honoured that they chose me for it.
Looking back, I hope I gave them a favourable account of the "dismal science". So many view this field with cynicism or a mortal fear. Hopefully we've dispelled some of those clouds of self-doubt. I hope they realise that this can be fun – really, and that they can excel at it – as they did. It's a matter of taking one-step-at-a-time, and persevering. It may not be very easy, but they can do this, and do it well. They know it; they've climbed "the wall".
I'll miss this lot. I wish them all the very best.
But as we go through the R&R, it is hard not to be afflicted by withdrawal symptoms. The "family" that was MLI has gone its own separate ways. The corridors are eerily silent, the computer labs are ghost towns, and there's no one napping in the lounge!! The quirks, the banter, the goofiness, and the occasional pain-in-the royal-arse (just kidding) .... are now memories. All good things come to an end.
As for me, each year I learn something new. If IM was my big step two years ago, this year I have an account on facebook, I am blogging, and my digital camera is being shipped. Go slow, my man – I keep telling myself. I shouldn't get ahead of myself!At the closing ceremony I gave my first speech. It was a heady, even if slightly nervous, experience. I'd say I was Clintonesque (ahem) – no, not in content or style, but in a few mannerisms. I could have been a lot more eloquent, but this'll do for my first effort. This is a special group, and I really felt honoured that they chose me for it.
Looking back, I hope I gave them a favourable account of the "dismal science". So many view this field with cynicism or a mortal fear. Hopefully we've dispelled some of those clouds of self-doubt. I hope they realise that this can be fun – really, and that they can excel at it – as they did. It's a matter of taking one-step-at-a-time, and persevering. It may not be very easy, but they can do this, and do it well. They know it; they've climbed "the wall".
I'll miss this lot. I wish them all the very best.
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awww we miss you too soumy!!!
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